TPH Forum
General => General => Topic started by: Kagemitsu on April 22, 2005, 11:00:30 am
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Hi, I'm Kagemitsu. Um, I'm a friend of Swiftman and the_broom. Erm, I can't talk in real life, so... I like being on the internet, because I can talk and communicate then.
Just saying hello!
Also, a question. Is there any chance of being able to download your songs in .zip form? I have dial-up, so I need every edge I can get.
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welcome to the forums
and also, im kinda surprised there arent .zips
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Compressing lossily-compressed music doesn't compress a whole lot. At least, ZIP doesn't (ZIP's bad at everything though). RAR compression might compress a bit, but not a lot.
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Welcome dude....
...But I have to say I'm curious.....why can't you talk offline?
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I seem to recall an old dos based zip type format, and it REALLY compressed stuff. At least 30% better than .zip or .rar, but the problem was it took a while and wasn't for newbies.
To answer Trigger's question, I can't talk offline (in real life) because as a kid I was in a really bad car accident and my vocal cords were utterly obliterated. They had no chance of healing, so the doctor just took them out. Now I get by with sign language and a chalk and chalkboard (ala Homer simpson) It works fairly well, but not quite up to speaking. All my other senses are fine. I just can't talk. Thanks for asking.
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To answer Trigger's question, I can't talk offline (in real life) because as a kid I was in a really bad car accident and my vocal cords were utterly obliterated. They had no chance of healing, so the doctor just took them out. Now I get by with sign language and a chalk and chalkboard (ala Homer simpson) It works fairly well, but not quite up to speaking. All my other senses are fine. I just can't talk. Thanks for asking.
Oh....
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Well...there is but one solution....
We all gather together to build a robotic monkey with implanted voices (such as homer simpson XD) and he can talk for you. We have the technology!! =^-^=
But besides my stupid idea....that sucks man....Sorry to hear that...and I'm barely sorry for anything....
Words are one of the few things that allow people to express themselves....to have that cut off....its not a good thing at all.
;_;
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That's not cool, not cool at all... But at least you have the internet.
Also: it sucks that you have no vocal cords, maybe if you ate someone else's...
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Heh heh. Good to see ya, Kag. Welcome to the forums.
(Lazlo: I don't think eating someone else's vocal cords would work. Maybe I should find something for him like Stephen Hawkings little wheelchair dealy.)
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that might work, but I'm not the fastest typer. I'm way better with sign language and hand-writing on a chalk board than typing.
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for a price, we could all have shifts coming to your house and translating various things where sign language wouldnt work
and we could play tetris too
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welcome to the forum.
as for the compression, unfortunately, even bzip2 (the most powerful compression algorithm i know of) only compressed a test file to be about two percent smaller than the original. granted, on dialup, such minute gains would matter, but for me, it does not make sense to put my valuable time into things like that when i could be acquiring totally new music. (my time is valuable in the sense that thousands of people benefit every time i do some work on the site.)
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Okay. Thanks for the replies, people!
to protoman: The dos-zip format was .arj, and it was really good. You could customize how big you wanted the compressed fiel to be and stuff like that. And true, it did take quite a bit of CPU power to work, but that was back when the 586 was uber good, so now with pentiums it shouldn't be too bad.
Also, is there any sort of way to put a .zip file into a .rar file or seomthing like that? double compress?
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I dont know if thats possible. If it was everybody would compress things until they're only 1kb or something (not really possible but itd be cool)